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"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, to the Officers of the First Brigade, Third Division, Massachusetts Militia, October 11, 1798.

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Monday, July 01, 2013

Hussein Obama’s Anti-Christian Actions

Dinesh D’Sousa suggests that it’s the anti-colonialism that President Obama absorbed from his late father, an orientation that accounts for the president’s antipathy toward our nation’s history and founding ethos.

The rock-bottom issue is the destructive nature of the secular religion of socialism, which is, next to Islam’s mandate for jihad, the most vicious and degrading religious movement ever to afflict humanity.

The election of Senator Obama to the presidency will usher in a Federal government in which both the legislative and executive branches will be controlled by leaders who worship at the altar of socialism, a secular religion. Nearly half of the Supreme Court Justices and a large percentage of other Federal judges are socialists.

The questions to confront are:

First, is Senator Obama a socialist? The answer emphatically is yes.

Publicly he asserts that he is a Christian. That, however, is preposterous.

Obama sympathizes with Islamic thugs whose feelings were hurt by a film clip demeaning Mohammed. We’ve never heard anything from him lamenting continual attacks on Judeo-Christian morality in the United States, however hurtful those attacks may be. Liberal-progressives’ sneering reply is, “Get used to it!”

Islamic fanatics across the Middle East demand that we suspend 1st Amendment guarantees of free speech and prosecute an exercise thereof. That’s a mirror image of the ACLU’s historical assertion of the right to use whatever force necessary to attack our nation and to destroy its moral core. According to the ACLU’s official history, In Defense of American Liberties, [Roger] Baldwin [co-founder of the ACLU] argued that “standards of civil liberty cannot be attained as abstract principles or as constitutional guarantees” because rights “are not granted” by those in power. They could be won only by militant action. ( The Liberal Jihad - The Hundred-Year War Against the Constitution).